Word: guinier
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...father was a victim of quotas, a quota ofone," said Guinier, explaining that when herfather came to Harvard College in 1929 he was notprovided with financial aid because, she believes,money had only been allotted for one blackstudent...
...meeting, which Simpson--who is now Director of the Institute of Politics--recounted in his introduction of Guinier, he asked Guinier if she would apply her proportional representation system to the white minorities in South Africa...
...That would be fine...because what I am describing is applicable in South Africa,too," said Guinier, reading her account of theincident from the book. "That is, the majorityshould rule, but it should rule in a way that isrespectful and that recognizes the interests ofthe minority in being part of the governingcoalition," Guinier read...
...Guinier attributed her failure to attain thecivil rights post in large part to the media'sconflation of her proportional representationsystem with that of quotas, saying that anyone whoknew her or read her work would know that she wasnot in support of quotas...
After the speech, Guinier spent nearly an houranswering questions on a variety of subjectsranging from her failed bid for office totechnical questions about proportionalrepresentation to her feelings on returning toHarvard as the first tenured black woman at theLaw School...